July 12, 2011

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In response to a chorus of calls for a congressional investigation into News Corp.’s activities, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) called Tuesday for the “appropriate agencies” to look into whether the media company has engaged in illegal activities in the United States.

Unauthorized voicemail access allegations against News Corp.-owned News of the World raise “serious questions about whether the company has broken U.S. law, and I encourage the appropriate agencies to investigate to ensure that Americans have not had their privacy violated,” the Senator said in a statement. “I am concerned that the admitted phone hacking in London by the News Corp. may have extended to 9/11 victims or other Americans. If they did, the consequences will be severe.”

Rockefeller is the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which yesterday was sent a letter by the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asking for an investigation into News Corp. after a report about hackings into Sept. 11 victims surfaced in the British press.

"There is no reason to cede all investigative efforts to the executive branch. Just as the British Parliament has held hearings and heard testimony from News Corp executives, so too could Congress," Sloan wrote in an email to POLITICO.

News Corp. declined to comment on the senator's statement.

Earlier Tuesday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said his regulators are currently staying out of the scandal investigation, telling reporters "there is obviously a process going on in the UK, and that is not a process we expect to get involved in or interfere with."

Telephone hacking is also used to silence bank whistle blowers in America -
see: http://ReportingWrongdoing.com and http://HappinessHacker.com - especially ANYONE Can Hack Your Telephone http://goo.gl/pzTrc and http://goo.gl/tTf0L
Dropped materials off at Jay's office several times last year but never heard anything back even though I went to high school with his sister.
Hope people now recognize the serious dangers of telephone hacking.

@ investigate soros -> If there was anytime where the right's false equivalency with Soros was blazingly obvious it would be right now. Investigate the media company that has been hacking politicians, murder victims and victims of terrorist attacks, you idiot.

I don't have any illusion of my communications being secure if Big Brother wants in. The privacy act was written to presecute the man on the street, law enforcement and big business are not encumberewd by law. The NWO does whatever they damn well please.

It looks like some Fox Newsers are involved in the controversy now; and it's come out that the company gave $1 million to the RGA. That's fair and balanced.
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@ 8:58, What a stupid comment. There's NEVER been any proof of Soros doing anything wrong, now the Koch brothers, that's a different matter. They're very good friends with Murdoch and who knows what shenanigans both have participated in. Murdoch is all but washed up in England, everyday the news get worse. Now News Corp. shareholders are bringing charges of nepotism against Murdoch, their investment in his company has lost them a ton of money. And from what we've already seen from Fox, I wouldn't doubt for one second that they haven't been involved this disgraced type of journalism.

This should definitely be investigated. The investigation in England actually started a few years ago and they dropped the ball, only to find that the corruption was more widespread than they ever imagined. I've been commenting on the British Parliament's comments on Murdoch and how they even told of Murdoch wanting to turn Sky News into another Fox News. Many members of the British Parliament wanted no part of that, citing the bigoted behavior of Beck and others at Fox News. For the U.S. to ignore it would be immoral.

Keep in mind this is the same Senator who said two years ago that:
"maybe we all would have been better off if we never invented the internet."
This guy only wants government censorship and doesn't give a "flip" about hackers, especially since 1 in 4 admittedly work for the government as terms for not doing jail time.

I agree with Senator Rockefeller and hope they begin an investigation. What goes around comes around and Rupert Murdoch's actions in the UK warrant investigation in the U.S. He has too much power in the media and newspapers in this country and it would be surprising if he isn't involved in inappropriate dealings here.

Anything to silence FOX right Jay ?, go after the head....I am curious what thos liberals and progressives will do when the GOP gains power, and does to TV what you lefties want to do with Talk Radio.....then what Jay ?....

Anyone dumb enough to invest in Rupert Murdoch, deserves to lose their money. It's about time someone in our government stands up to News Corp and asks for an investigation. This scandal is far from over.

All this hype while we have a sitting President who has presented a fake birth certificate as his "true, Hawaiian, certificate". Several document experts have attested that his presented document is fake, but not one person in the Congress of the United States has demanded that the document, Obama presented, be compared with the birth certificate on record in Hawaii, to be assure the public that Obama did in fact present his true and legal certificate. But nowm Congress finds this Murdoch issue so important. Wake Up Congress. The President Has Produced A Fake Birth Certificate. Protect the public by demanding an investigation by the FBI, to either prove or disprove the authenticity of this birth certificate.
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Why would something like a pond get in the way of phone hacking? It isn't like they hacked a phone or two. They hacked everyone on that side of the pond. Do you really think they weren't doing the same thing here?